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L-1II-1J Iftl?I 'J" 1 .J
WELCOME AS FLOWERS IN MAY.
At day's declining, ft maid sat twining
A garland Hliining with wild flowers guy:
But hor heart it was aore, and tlio tears swelled
oVr
Her eye, at the door, on that eve in May.
Mud take," bIic cried, to her young heart's
pride,
" From your pliglited bride, 011 litis holy dayi
A true love token of fond vows spoken
That may not bo broken?these flowers of
May.
'In life and in death, if you hold to your faith,
Keep ever litis wreath, 'twill hosweot in
decay;
Come poor or with wealth, come in sickness or
health,
To my heart you'll be welcomo as flowers
in May.
''Yet, oh! if ever, when wide sea3 sever
Our hearts, you waver in faith to ine.
A true Irish maid will never upbraid
Affection betrayed?from that hour you're
frcol
"I set small store upon golden or?,
I'll not lovo you the more from your wealth
from the sea;
The hand that will toil at our own loved soil,
Free from crime or from spoil, is the hand
for me!
Tho blessing half spolcen, her fast tears choke'
And strong sobs broke the young man's
pray'r:
One blending of hearts' and the youth Mparts--"
Full many a scorc that maid counted o'er
Of day-dawns and night falls?a year to a
day;
When, 6adly once more, at the seat by the
door,
Stood I ho youth as before, on that eve in
May.
For the love of that maid, wherever he strayed,
Kept his soul from stain, and his hand from
guilt;
Like an angel fr God, till his feet retrod
The cueri. in . i n< il wiiere liis tirst love dwelt"I
bring you no store of the bright gold ore,
Hut, poor as before, I return to day,
For my bride I've 110 wealth but broken health,
Uopes withered aiui dead as the flowers of
May."
The maiden has prcst her true love toner
breast,
Iler joyful haste no doubts delay;
In his arms she sighs "Tisyourself [ prize,
To my heart voti are welcome as flowers in
' May!
A KISSING IIOLYDAY.
The English correspondent of tlie N.
Y. Commercial Adverliser gives the following
description of one of the Easter
Holydays, which he passed at a small
town in the heart of Staffordshire:
"On descending to the little parlor of
? * U 1 T ! I
me inn, on juonuay morning, i puruuivuu
that nil the household was in their gayest
attire, and that no one entertained any
serious notions of work or business. 1
had dispatched my solitary breakfast of
ham and eggs, and other country dainties,
and was looking out, with mixed
feelings of delight and envy, upon the
prospect before me, when the door of my
room was suddenly flung open, and six
rosy-cheeked, ringlcttcd young women
entered, tittering very much, and looking
very foolish at each other, and then
at me.
T nm rnin Vmt In rrli-n fliA rlpvil
? ...U ...... v..~ ~
his due, I am a rather handsome fellow?
my mother told mo 60 a thousand times;
so, upon the whole, I was rather gratified
by this piece of admiring attention. But
to be left alone in a little room, with half
a dozen girls, requires some nerve; and
I confess I began to feel rather qualmish.
I am rather bashful bcsiJcs?very bashful
and, therefore, had a mortal repugnance
to being thus exhibited gratis, and
so, to put an end to the scene, I said, in
as careless a tone as I could command,
"What's the matter, Mary?" "Well,
sir " she answered, "I see you don't unflr>rQfnn#I
i\nr wnvQ' hut. vmi miifct. Kit in
this clmir, if you please." And she indicated
a chair which I had not perceived,
in the back staves of which were entwined
laurel, ivy and flowers.
Anxious to conciliate them, I complied
with her request, resigning myself to my
fate with desperate fortitude. Scarcely
had I taken my seat, when they lifted
me up in the chair, as high as they could
three or four times, laughing most outrageously
at my looks of bewildered horror.
I gave myself up for lost; an unfortunate
young man, who had strayed into
a rustic wilderness, far from his home mid
his friends, entrapped, ensnared, and
forcibly carried away by six violent pretty
girls. But if I was horror-struck at
the proceeding, judge what wa3 my consternation
when the leader of the assaults,
that very Mary who had brought my
breakfast half an hour before, and leered
upon me as only a charming, wicked
waiting-woman can leer, advanced, seized
me round the neck, and impressed, upon
my half parted lips, a ferocious kiss!
nn.:? ?i.~ ~i:~w.~ t ,i?r.?.i a-.
jliiio tiiu ^juikia. x ucuuu uuMiuy
from that instant; nnd resolved to meel
my fate like a martyr. "La, sir," said
Mary, "1 dcciare you are quite alarmed;
I must have ano'her, just to bring you
to your senses." And she bad another,
ana it did bring me to my censes. How
goon one gels used to kiting.! yV.ll my
terror had vanished at tho salute of the
third damsel, and I replied to the "lip
service"' of the six with interest. I got
so fond of the sport that 1 even wanted
to repeat the performance, and would not
have cared to employ the day in such
pastime.
"Now, sir," said Mar}', "you must
know that this is our 'heaving-day;* to
day the young girls -"heaves' tlie young
. men, whoever tliey van catch, gentle or
simple; and to-morrow tlio young men
'heaves' we, if they can catch us; and
them as don't get a kiss, man or woman,
pays forfeit." I was also informed that
it was customary to give some trifling
gratuity to the ladies, 'as a keepsake;' a
practicc to which I conformed by giving
them a trifle of money, which they did
not keep long, and they left me well
plowed with the success of their exploit,
while I was no less so.
I rode, in ?the mail coacli, to within
two miles of my friend's house, and
walked the remaining distance. My road
laid through narrow lanes, and across
?1w? "....III I o cminll vll
Inge. Hitherto I had not met n soul; but
was walking merrily on, whistling or singing,
iti love with all the world, not omitting
tin; most important item in the aggregate?myself.
But as 1 entered the
straggling village, I could perceive gowns,
and many-colored caps, flirting backward
and forward, and had an intuitive consciousness
of women resolved on heaving
achievements, lying in ambush behind
impervious hedges, which filled me
with 6trango trepidation. I proceeded,,
however, calling up a look of magnificent
stnnd-off-or- 1'11-bite-you expression; think
ing, in tho innocence of my head, to
ehcck too familiar advances by an assumed
hautiicr.
I was r 'serably deceived, for a strongbuilt
young lady, in a state of most barbarous
lie 1th, came forward to meet me,
with an artful carelessness of manner, evidently
wishing to persuade me that I
I i! 1 1 il. ~1 -.1. ~ 1..
was liunouccu, aim inui< miu ?as uniy
goinf{ to tlio spring for n pail of water;
but when she. arrived within grappling
distance, she Hung her pail away, clasped
me rudely around the waist, and before
I conic' spy alas! she lifted mo from my
feet, and kissed me with violence. She
offered no apology for thus assaulting mo
on the Queen's highway, but laughed in
my face immoderately, and called out
"Sukcy, I've got him!" Oh dear! scarcely
had she spoken, before Sukcy, and
net, ana roily, ana a dozen others, sprang
into being from invisible places, and 1 j
was surrounded by a laugbing, shou'ing
group of unfeeling, robustious females.
1 expostulated and entreated in vain?
T was pulled about, lifted up, and kissed
without mercy ; till, making a desperate
rall)r, I burst from their embraces, and
fled along the lane, at the top of my
speed, followed by derisive cheers from
my baffled persecutors, and shouts of
laughter from their husbands, fathers, and
brothers, who had left the lied Lion to
see the sport.
mo i/ennsyivanian, commenting on
the ne>v Hoslon notion for procuring
wives, says:?
PoPl'INQ THE QUESTION OENAUM.I.Y.
Jam rciliit viiyo. The reign of ancient
modesty is about to recommence.
Single gentlemen arc getting so cxccj. ivcly
bashful, that they have not "check"
enough to prospose to the girls in person,
hut they must needs do it in the advertising
columns of the newspaper. In
some of the penny journals, wo notice
two or three new advertisements for
wives every day. What a deal of hum
ing diusiics, wnai oounncss palpitations
of the heart, arc saved by this easy
method of popping the question. "A
young man of a bashful disposition and
limited means, wi^ses for form a matrimonial
union, with a^'oung lady of handsome
person, elegant manners, unimpaired
health, a tender and affactionate disposition,
a first rate education, iiftluding
. such genteel accomplishinonts as music,
dancing, drawing, and painting, etc., <kc.
N. H. No one need apply unless she has
at lcftss $5,000 in cash. Address, (post
paid,) Jacob, at this office." llere is a
snmnlp. nf tl?r? wnv in wlnnli flin nunolinn
?i ? ?j ?
is popped to the whole sex nt once, by
' young gentlemen of ir bashful disposit:">n."
The sportsman who pops nt u
i whole flock certainly has a better chance
of hitting something, than ho who fire3
at a single pigeon. Imagine "Jacob,"?
the advertiser just quoted?coming to
> the office of the "Daily IMowhorn," with
a market basket or carpet-bag on his ar.n,
to contain tho numerous epistles ho expects
in answer to nis matrimonial piocla'
mation. The clerk hands him a single
billet, and a very odd looking one too,
"Is that all?" asks Jacob, with innocent
- ,?:#K ? i.?_.i
41 rt L W I 11 ( 1 I I 11; I I l>, I III, U1UI a tVllll (\ UlUilU
I grin, answers affirmatively. Jacob, with
I nervous trepidation, breaks open the
dingy note, and ready:?
"Sur?Seeing as you are in want of
a wife, and being as I am out of a ait cation
myself I might talk to you about it
if your figger and looks would suit. I
causing jennnt and Jennot, Uncle Ned,
and other fashionable music and dance
some. As for painting, that's not woman's
work no how, and J 'm not a going
to do nothing but what J'm uso to. If
your menrid is limited,?what you say,
flftk
you nced'nt cxpect to git a gfd worth
iivo tliousnnd dollars, and if that's your
ideer, I must say you'ro all sorts of a
donkey. All I say is, if you git mo
you'll git a prise, and nothing shorter?
for I can wash, scrub, cook and iron like
a steam ingin. 11" you want to talk about
it?you kin ask for nie at No?Fitzwater
street, Mawniansing.
Yours and sctty,
Janr Gibson.
Jacob dashes tbe tender missive
against the counter, and rushes out, saiisiied
that there is a slim chance among
the ladies, for a "young roan of a bashful
disposition."
To all such young men wc would recommend
the Irishman's mode?don't
write to a girl?but talk to her in person
?and kiss ber twice as often as you say
a word !
What would the Editor say of the regular
fraternity of Veteran Bachelors,
about to be organised here.
Phenomena attendant on Immersing
the J lands in Molten Metal.?M. Come,
in a paper submitted to the Paris Acadeiry
of Science, says: "Having detcrmin
t_'U UI1 lllVUSUgilllllg tilt? (|IIUhllUIl WllfUll'l
the employment of licjuid sulphurous
acid for moistening the hands would produce
a sensation of coldness when they
arc immersed in the melted metal, I immersed
my hands, previously moistened
with sulphurous acid, in the melted lead,
and experienced a sensation of decided
cold. I repeated the experiment of immersing
the hand in melted lead and infused
cast-iron. Before experimenting
with the melted iron, 1 placed a stick,
previously moistened with water, in the
stream of liquid metal, and on withdrawing
i?, found it to be almost as it was before,
scarcely aay of the moisture was
evaporated. The1 moment a dry picccof
wood was placed in connection with the
heated metal, combustion took place. M.
Covlet and I then dinned our hands into
vessels of the liqvid metal, and passed
our fingers several times backwards and
forwards through a stream of metnl llowing
from the furnace, the heat from the
radiation of the fused metnl being at the
same time almost unbearable. We varied
these experiments for upwards of two
hours; and J/adamo Colvet, who assisted
at these experiments, permitted her child,
a girl of nine years of age, to dip her
hand in a crucible of red hot metal with
impunity. We experimented on the
melted iron, both with our hands quite
dry, and also when moistened with water,
alcohol, and ether. The same results
were obtained as with melted lead, and
each of us experienced a sensation of cold
when employing sulphurous acid.''
GREEK BEAUTY.
"Since, therefore, beauty was was thus
desired and prized by the Greeks, nothing
was concealed which could enhance
it. Every beutiful person sought to become
known to the whole nation by this
endowment, and especially to pleaso the
artists, because they decreed the prize of
beauty; and for this very reason, ihey
had opportunity of seeing beauty daily.
jjcnuiy was an excellence wnicn led to
fame; for we find that the Greek histories
make mention of those who were distinguished
for it. Some persons were
even characterized by a particular name,
borrowed from beautiful portions of
the body; thus Demetrius Poliorcctca
was named, from the beauty of his eyelids,
charilrblc-])karos, that is to say, 'on
whose lids the Graces dwell.' It appears,
indeed, to have been a belief, that
tho procreation of beautiful children
might he promoted by tho distribution of
prizes for beauty, as there is reason to in
lcr from the contests of beauty which
were instituted in the remotest nges b)>
Cypselus, King Arcadia, in the time of
the Ileraclidaj, on the banks of the river
Alpheus in Elis; and also from the fact
that, at the festival of the Pliilesian
vl polio, a prize for the most exquisite
kiss was conferred on the youthful. Its
assignment was subject to tho decision ol
a judge, as was probably nlso tho ease
at Megaro, at the tomb of Dioclcs. At
n.,,1 ll.. 1 1- -1
UIIU <?i? ivcauus, 111 VIIU lUlUjHU OI
Juno, and among the Parrhasia, tho women
contended for the prize of beauty.
The regard for this quality was so general
and so strong, that, as Oppinn declares,
tho Spartan women placcd in
their sleeping rooms nn Apollo, or Bacchus,
or Ncreus, or Narcissus, orllya
cinthus, or Castor and Pollux, in ordei
that they might bear beautiful children.
[ Wintleman
A C\vnoMNA Yarn.?Wo havo heard
ft good story ot an old North Carolinian
who was, besides Magistrate, Sheriff and
Wreokmaster, the proprietor of a coun
try store. Like nil such stories it was
the rendezvous of nil tho loafers in th<
village. These fellows used to bo tlier<
every night, playing pokor, generally witl:
the old man's clerk, and besides drinking
the old man's liquor, spent his money
furnished by tho confidential clcrk. Old
Hilly suspected what was going on and
came down on them suddenly ono night,
and before they could hide themselves
'Ncmiah' got "Jesse, but was forgiven,
promising to sin no moro."
"Nemiuh," said Hilly, "never let a soul
in after 8 o'clock." Ncmiah promiscij
,Jw
obedience. Next night the crowd wns
at work ns usual, and Billy thought lie
would go down nnd sco how things went
on, Accordingly, down he went and
Knocked at the door.
"Who's there?" ciicd Nemiah.
"Its me, Mr. , open the door."
"No, Billy told me never to let any
one in after 8 o'clock, and I ain't going
to do it."
"But Nemiah, it's me, open the door
one moment."
"No, none of your gammon; you sound
mightily like liim but it won't go down,
so travel, or dod rot your head if I don't
give you u shot with this blunderbuss,
you old humbug *
"lJilly waited to hear no more, but
started off like tho wink, confident that
Nemiah was a reformed man, and the
next day doubled his salary!
What biiall I Tkll'em I Think??
Wo could wish that every perking, inquisitive,
mischief-making old maid, or
"benign cerulean" of kindred propensities.
would oblitre and benefit themselves
oy reading the accompanying anecdote,
"tacked on" to a business letter just received
from "down east."?
A calm, blue-eyed, self-composed and
self-possessed young lady in this villago
received a long call the other day from a
prying old spinster, who, after prolonging
her stay beyond even her own conception
of the young lady's enduranoo, enme to
the main question which had brought her
thither.
"I've been asked a good many times if
you was engaged to Dr O . Now
if folks enquire ngain whether you be or
not, what shall 1 tell them I thinkV
"Tell them," answered the young lady,
fixing her calm blue eyes in unblinking
steadiness upon tho inquisitive features
of her interrogator, "tell them that you
think you (lon't know, and that you are
sure it is none of your business!' "
"Samivel, my darling little sonny,"
says the good mother, "l're not seen your
book for several days or more?where is
it?"
"I knows where it is."
"Well, where?"
"Why, it's only lost, a little?kinder?
in the house down sullar, in the barn, or
round out doors, summers, I guess; prc'nps
up garret, or ahind the wood-pile."
Abscncc of Miml?A man with delirium
ti uncus, accusing his wife of craziness.
PROSPECTUS
OF
'"SHE SOUTHERN PRESS."
An association of sixty-three Members o?
Congress, Senators and Representatives, have
constituted the undersigned a committee to
superintend the establishment of a Southern
Press at Washington City, to he devoted to the,
exposition and defiance of Southern rights and
in titutioius?the dissemination of correct information
as to Northern policy, and the course
of political affairs generally, without reference
, to the old party lines of Whig and Democrat.
Arrangements arc now m progress, promptly to
ensure the issue of such a paper untJer the
title of
"THE SOUTHERN PRESS,"
for the conduct of which, suitable Editors have
been engaged, who will ?lso receive the aid of a
number of eminent and able contributors.
There will be both a tri weekly and a weekly
issue?the latter to contain substantially the
same matter as the former, and intended to
reach those points of the country whose mail
facilities are limited.
A Daily issue will be added hereafter, should
it be deemed advisable oi njces*ary by the
press and people of the Southern States.
Tho paper will not be exclusively political?
S Itilf vt'ill mnlirnnn ifo lirnrwl i\in r>n?iof
.. ...v-r. i-...ov.v .UB
al news of the day, domestic and foreign, by
mail and telegraph; commercial and agricultural
intelligence, literary criticisms, original essays,
literary nnd misceUoneous; and, in thort,
all tliose items of general interest, the collec
ted aggregate of which constitutes tlio interesting
and valuable Newspaper. Great care
will betaken to give full and corrcct Report of
> the Proceedings and Delwtes in both Houses
i of Congress; as well as the action of the local
Legislatures 011 the Southern question.
A limited number only of Advertisements
p will be received?the mum object being to furnish
n large amount of reading matter.
i hi* paper win no pniueu on h siicci equal
in si/.o to those of tlio other Washington papers
and the material will bo procured especially
for tlio purpose.
It in confidently honed that every truo
friend to the South will aid in procuring eub
cribers, and forward the names, witli tiio
. amount Hubseribed, to somo Southern Keprogentative
at Washington, forthwith.
Postmasters are authorized by law to remit
' subscriptions free of postage.
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and Semi-weekly during the recess, tlio price
will l>e, per annum - $6 00
Weekly paper - - 2 60
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rinhly in advance, and the cash accompany the
' name sent.
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titled to receive n copy gratis for one year.
? SI. J'. JfUTjUtSiH,
, J A CKS ON MORTON,
, It. TOOMBS,
, THOMPSON.
fy R?IiturM and paper** friendly to Iho onj
erprizo will please publish this Prospectus,
which will entitle them to an exchange with
' tho newspaper.
, Washington, May 25, 1850.
tfW The friends of Gol. B. IIagood
respectfully announce him as aoandidato
I to represent tho people of Pendleton Dis,
trjet w t4ic State Senate.
NEW AND FASHIONABLE
srairvu AWI) S1WKR t
GOODS!
The subscribers are now receiving and *
opening large assortments of the newest
and most fashionable Spring and ?S'viuV* jgSjSfl
iner CJ OODS, together wit& Domestics
and Groceiies of a 1 kinds, an of .jybich ?ijsf
they will dispose of on the mosfrffifrffifo. ^
able terms for cash.
Cull and examine bcforo you purchsies i?ra
elsewhere.
ALEXANDER ?fe BARTON, at Pick- (g&
insville S. C.; ALEXANDER & NEVIL, S&
at West Union S. C.
v2 nf tf 1850 IB
HE A V QUARTERS.
Charleston, Feb. 27, 1850
I GENERAL ORDERS NO]
CIRCUMTANCES demanding Hint
tlic Governor should be oflicinlly ncqunin.
ted with (lie effective force of the ^S'tute,
and the number of ahu m men?the Brig- ?m.
adier Generals nre hereby directed forth- ?
with to make returns of their commands, Lj|
to (he Adjutant and Inspector Geneml
at Camden. A failure in responding %
promptly to this order, will not be ove? looked,
and the newspaper publications \
will be regarded as sufficient notice.
By order of the Commander in Chief ^fS
J. AV. CANTEY, Adjutant and In
pector General. ' ..$?
March 9, 42 lm.
notice: ff(
All Persons having demands against K %
-he Estate of Sheriff Ilnyncs, deceased. '0
will hand them in legally attested Thoe
indebted must make navnient.
W D. TEELE,
Noa. 17tli Ordiimry <fc Adm'r
?. t\ vkhhy.l Tk. m. keith. |
PERRY & K1TEH,
Attorneys at Law,
\xt t> ii - ri "
vt ii.i. i nitucu m (110 \JOUriS 01 Ijftw SJ$"
and Equity for Pickens District.
Office, Pickcns C. II . C.
October 1, 1840. I2f2
IfSlSAI* S|
Charleston, March 28.
In pursvianco of a recommendation of
tho Legislature, in relation to tho distribu- .
tion of only refxiired vlrms, the Miiitia
Officers interested, arc hereby notified jffl
that as all tho Rifles belonging to the |
State are veto, no guns of that descfip- !,
tion shall in future be issued from the Ar- gg
i3y oraor or 1110 uommnncier-m-Uhier.
13. T. WATT, QMO.
vlpril 12 3 %
Le((crft.
Remaining in the 1'ostOflice nt Pickens CJ I
II., Quarter ending 31st Jilnrch I860, which Aj.
not taken out within three months will be sent
- ' J
to the Post-Otlico Department as dead letterg ;, ,
E. Agnow Jns. M. Carter
II. Itromer John 11: Boyd ?
Susan Carver James Kuton
Anderson II. Edwards Catherine E, Frnulof
W. "W. Gassaway A.M.Hamilton
Patsey or Alvalo Mr*. Martha Huhnicut
siunmcmt wuimm //unycut
JiuncH lloldcn Henry Heater
Lemuel Hamilton Josiah D. Jnrrnrd
Daniel Loopcr Maleny Mrmlilin
Raford Morgan Jninua Phillips,
John Richer .John Samples H5|
Stephen Smith Thomas "Vnndcavor
ohnH White | Mrs Colin Hill
E. E. ALEXANDER, P. M.
March 31, 1850.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
IN THE COMMON FI.2A8.
PICKEN DISTRICT.
Allen Knifh. nssifrmxi 1 J^?n " A<ir.?u
i j'vvi an JHUltll i
vs. > Perry <fe Keith, j&j
Joel M. Keith. ) PlfF's-Att'ya. |
The Plaintiff having this day filed Ins |
Declaration in my oftico, and the Dofen- jjfl
dant having no Wife, nor Attorney, fl
known to be in this State on whom a co- H
py of this Declaration may bo served, fl
On motion oi Plaintiff'# Attorney,
It is Ordered, That the Defendant do J
appear and plead or demur to the said
Declaration, within ono year and a day
from this date, or judgment will entered 9E
bv default.
W. L. KEITH, o. c. 1?. I
Clerk's Ofllco, }
January 1, I860. J 83-1 y I
JAMES V. TRIMMIER,
ATORlVfiY AT LAW, B
SPARTANBURG, 0. H., S. C. |
Will prnctico in the Courts of Union,
Spnrtnnburg niulflrccnvillc. fl
AllbusinefiBcoinmittctltohl?onrAwill />??!
prompt and faithful attention.
RBrERENOKS: I
Hon. D. Wallaok, Union, ft. C. B
T. O. P, Vkknom, o. k. h. d., Spnrtanburpf, S. 0 I
May 18, 1840 1-tf I
Kxcciitivc Department, 1
The Mednls prepared by direction of
the Legislature, for tho surviving -Members
of the PALMETTO REGIME#?,
being icndy for distribution?tho OFFI- I
CKll and PRIVATE nro requested to
presen1 their names ns early as possible,
to tho Captains, or Commanding Officer^
of Companies, who will thereon Repor|
to tho Governor.
By order.
B. T. W ATT, Scc'ry.
jfc?J~Evcry paper in the /State will pul)
I lialj three tijncs weekly.